Trying to resize Scrivener front window

Questions & Suggestions
#1

I recently had to reinstall Scrivener after upgrading to Catalina, and now a macro that resized the front window when showing/hiding the Binder no longer works, and I can’t figure out which of the options for manipulating window size to use and what values to enter. Whatever I do seems to have no effect on the window size.

When hiding the Binder, I would like the left-hand edge of the front window to extend to the left-hand side of the screen while leaving the position of the right-hand edge unchanged, and when showing the Binder, I would again like the position of the right-hand edge of the front window to remain unchanged. I would be very grateful if any Scrivener user could point me in the right direction.

#2

Since no one who has Scrivener running on Catalina has jumped in, I though I'd try to offer some limited help (I don't have either).

Some Ideas:

  1. Most likely a Catalina issue -- see TIP: Resolving Catalina (and Mojave) Accessibility and Security Permissions Issues
  2. If this is a new version of Scrivener, it is possible that the target window ("Binder") has been changed to use a non-standard window that KM can't see.

I know we have a number of Forum members who use Scrivener, so maybe one of them will jump in with more specific help.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes.

#3

Thanks for your suggestions. This is not a new version of Scrivener. Scrivener crashed the first time I tried to launch it after upgrading to Catalina, and continued to crash thereafter, and so I had to reinstall it.

Scrivener has a menu command for hiding or showing the Binder, so that is not a problem. The window I want to resize is the main Editor window, depending on whether or not the Binder is visible.

#4

Suggest you repost your problem on the Scrivener forum and maybe iola will answer it for you.

#5

I can't help feeling that, rather than being a problem specific to Scrivener, it is due to my lack of understanding of how to determine the values for the positions entered when moving or resizing a window with KM. If I recall correctly, in Scrivener 2 the Editor window was automatically resized when hiding or showing the Binder, and I wrote my original macro because this behaviour disappeared in Scrivener 3, and so perhaps I will repost on the Scrivener forum.